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Abolitionism
African Americans
African diaspora
Afro-Caribbean
Anti-racism
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Black British
Black people
Black Power
Blacks in Liverpool
Bourgeoisie
Britishness
Case study
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Colonialism
Conflation
Cosmopolitanism
Culture
Deindustrialization
Diaspora
Disadvantage
Doreen Massey (geographer)
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Ethnography
Exclusion
Gender
Half-caste
Ideology
Immigration
Informant
Institution
Interracial marriage
Invisibility
Kinship
Liverpool
Merseyside
Minority group
Modernity
Mother
Mrs.
Multiracial
My Father
Narrative
Nationality
New York City
Origin story
Parent
Pitt Street
Politics
Prostitution
Race (human categorization)
Race Matters
Racial politics
Racialization
Racism
Scouse
Sense of Place
Sensibility
Slave narrative
Slavery
Subjectivity
Suggestion
The Black Atlantic
The Other Hand
The Various
Unemployment
Uniqueness
W. E. B. Du Bois
West Africa
West Indian
White people
World War II
Yanks
Product details
- ISBN 9780691115634
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool's own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity. Crisscrossing historical periods, rhetorical modes, and academic genres, the book focuses singularly on "place," enabling its most radical move: its analysis of Black racial politics as enactments of English cultural premises.
The insistent focus on English culture implies a further twist. Just as Blacks are racialized through appeals to their assumed Afro-Caribbean and African cultures, so too has Liverpool--an Irish, working-class city whose expansive port faces the world beyond Britain--long been beyond the pale of dominant notions of authentic Englishness. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail studies "race" through clashing constructions of "Liverpool."
Jacqueline Nassy Brown is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
